In a recent lawsuit, rapper 2 Milly alleged that the maker of the video game Fortnite, stole the dance he choreographed and is unfairly profiting from "exploiting his protected creative expression and likeness." The Washington Post reached to Finnegan attorney Mark Sommers for his thoughts around the use of celebrities and their personas in video games.
Mark said, "The quality of video games has become so real that they’re able to offer products that drill down to these particular elements and depictions that previous technology did not allow.” As a result, he expects to see more cases like this. He added, “How you communicate with people has changed through texting as opposed to when you made a phone call. So the ability of people to digest information quickly and succinctly has allowed them to digest elements of identification succinctly and quickly, too.”
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